Ein Prost! (better late than never)

[imshakydad]

I raise a cold and frosty one for my fellow "Parkies" in my latest blog...

imshakydad.wordpress.com/20...

[zawy]

They're saying xanthohumol is the ingredient in hops that might make beer better than other alcohols for PD. In mild doses it reverses metabolic syndrome, reducing obesity and diabetes by helping the mitochondria. In higher doses, it kills cancer cells by letting the mitochondria produce reactive oxygen. In mild doses, it prevents harmful oxidation.

There are other PD-probably-healthy compounds in the hops, so a hoppy beer seems like a good idea. I brew my own, so I can make it pretty hoppy. I can give a quick and easy recipe for a "beer-wine" for PD. Grapefruit and orange have several PD-beneficial ingredients, so here is my recipe for 5 gallons: 15 cans frozen grapefruit, 4 can orange, 1 can grape, 1/2 pound honey, 4 ounces hops, 5 chopped cloves, 4 TBLS cinnamon, 1 gallon water. Bring to boil 10 minutes, let cool to 100 F (3 hours?). Add 3 gallon water in 5 gallon bucket sterilized with weak bleach and rinse. Make sure less than 80 F. Add EC-1118 wine yeast from amazon. Place lid barely on. You have a nice (or at least healthy) citrus very alcoholic hoppy drink in 12 days. This many hops will stop any bacteria. Place in clean soda bottles after 12 days or whatever else seals well. Check after 5 days to make sure pressure is not building up from more yeast action making CO2. Drink 6 ounces per day, placing partially-drunk bottle in fridge to be finished in less than a week. 5 gallons will lasts 3 months.

Also, beer has purines that increase uric acid that reduce chances of PD, that my above recipe does not include.

The alcohol by itself is also beneficial.

[BUZZ1397]

Relatively high levels of xanthohumol in beer usually point to a second, late addition of hops to the boiling wort (Stevens et al., 1999a).

[Don_oregon_duck in reply to BUZZ1397]

What does that mean?

[BUZZ1397 in reply to Don_oregon_duck]

Found a Texas brewery that uses the final dry hops screening process after the boiling of the wort. It is the Spoetzl brewery, the brewers that make Shiner Bach. Their hoppiest brew is an IPA called Wicked Ram.

[BUZZ1397]

Not an expert, never brewed beer. Read that little to none of the hop flower's xanthahumol survives the boiling process. However if you strain the finished boiled wort over a couple of inches of fresh hops then a lot of the hops components get freshly added to your brew, includng xanthahumol and a lot of flavor. Plus that straining helps to get a clearer product. I read it but I do not know how to do it.